Media and the war in the Pacific

[Snigbert]

I was under the impression from reading Sakai that the SNLF were regular infantry who had been trained in amphibious landings.

[SoulBlazer]

That's what they were susposed to be. In reality, they were often no better then sailors armed with weapons and told to land. They were under navy control, and the IJN tried to use them like Marines but they fell woefully short.

[Piiska]

Originally posted by pasternakski
The best two sources of such information are the archives of the New York Times and CBS radio. Both are available on the Web through links on those two companies' Web sites.

I got lost with these two pages. They are not very clear (Actually they are horrible. CBS and CBS Radio didn't even have a search feature).

The only reference to historical archives I found was on NY times. They have a "On this day" section, but searching articles about specific issues is very cumbersome without a search feature; their search is limited only to their modern stories dating back to 1996. No help there. Not even with help of google search.

Would you have a link to these archives you meant Pasternakski? I think others might find them interesting as well.

Thanks for others posting here as well. However, I'm living in Finland so its a bit problematic for me to go searching microfilms that are located in U.S - unless of course they are online.

Does anyone in U.S know a library that has moved their microfilms online for public viewing?

For Australians. I will be back in Sydney in about a month and I have access to UTS library and their librarians, so I'm sure I can find at least Pacific War coverage in Australia with a relative ease. Bombing of Darwin should make interesting reading.

Originally posted by Zeta16
A good book on Japan's policies leading up to the war and during read JAPAN"S WAR. It talks about how the government used lies and misinformation to keep the war fever going. It also explains how Japan reported battles to it's people

Do you happen to know if the book has original Japanese newspaper articles translated to English with original pictures?Transcripts from radio would be great also.

Hmm... I'm starting to have a sneaking suspicion that If I'm to find any original Japanese articles, I have to learn to read Japanese

[Raverdave]

Originally posted by Piiska

For Australians. I will be back in Sydney in about a month and I have access to UTS library and their librarians, so I'm sure I can find at least Pacific War coverage in Australia with a relative ease. Bombing of Darwin should make interesting reading.

While you are in Oz head down to Canberra and have a look at the Australian War Memorial. They have a great research area that is open to the public, and have staff on hand to help you. There are also THOUSANDS of the old "MovieTone" newsreels on video which you can look at in the video booths, also located in the research section.

[Piiska]

Mate. I'm going to travel for about a month at the East Coast, starting from Cairns and going to Sydney.

I wonder should I cancel my rainforest, Barrier Reef and surfing adventure and go to Canberra instead?

No seriously. Thanks for the info. I live in Sydney, so Canberra is not that far away. However, it is just a bit too far away only to have a quick look at archives.

I wonder what the Sydney main library has? They should have some old newspapers and newsreels as well. Besides, UTS library has great librarians, they can find me almost anything

I recently found an article that discussed one intelligence leak by the Media in U.S.

Shortly after the Battle of Midway one major American newspaper reported that the victory was greatly due to cracking of Japanese codes. Apparently, Japanese were not reading the right papers so they didn't find out, but U.S military and intelligence officials were not very happy about the article.

Can't blame them for that.